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There was no law, but the law of the strongest. This gave way before an increasing population, and the necessity of settlements. Hence arose the Feudal System.

A powerful proprietor secured to himself absolute right over a large body of dependents, whom he summoned, ever and anon, to make aggression upon some neighboring baron. Thus was presented the spectacle of servile dependence and irresponsible authority, and the consequent shock and tumult of irregular power. The elemental forms of society were in frequent and dread collision.

Queen Victoria. The sovereign of England is, in | secular history-the twilight of the past-reveals fact, obliged by oath to profess and uphold the it as rude and savage. Men, banded together as Protestant religion; but we will observe to Lord families and clans, made incessant war upon each Brougham that the Archbishop of Paris causes prayers to be put up for the conversion of the people of England in general, and not for that of the queen in particular, and that if England were to be converted it is probable that she would not depose the queen for acting in the same way as herself. In any case a complaint of this kind is the most extraordinary thing in the world on the part of such a man as Lord Brougham. We should have thought that the old and eloquent defender of the ideas of liberty and propagandism would have been the last to take offence at such a manifestation. Governments would not complain if they had only to contend against crusades and prayers, and it appears to us that the purely spiritual means to which the Archbishop of Paris has recourse for the conversion of those whom he regards as heretics are infinitely more in conformity with liberty of conscience than the acts of parliament which have just been repealed. Every man speaks, preaches, and prays for what he believes to be the truth. The Protestants have a simple means of replying to the prayers of the Archbishop of Paris. Let them resort to reprisals. Let the Archbishop of Canterbury ordain prayers for the conversion of France to the Anglican church. Lord Brougham inay be assured that nobody here would see in such a step any attack upon liberty or upon the government."

But population pushed wider its limits-the strength of contending families and factions, by repeated measurings, became known and defined, and, therefore, less turbulent.

A more fixed order was educed, which gave birth to a fairer civilization.

Then came the Age of Chivalry. It was the triumph of women. Devotion to the fair sex its basis-a courteous and gentle bearing its badge and symbol. It was the starlight age of nations.

At the sound of trumpet, forth came Rank and Beauty to the tented field, to witness, at joust and tournament, the pride and prowess of steel-clad knights.

The proud scion of a noble house sought distinction among his compeers by deeds of heroic gallantry or feats of perilous daring; or, to win the approving smile of some fair damsel, by fearful adventures in gloomy woods and haunted caverns. He assailed enchanted castles, encountered giants, and fought with fiery dragons. He thus achieved the desires of Love and Beauty.

But this gorgeous pageantry, and these fantastic forms passed into deeds of sterner truth and intenser character.

The church pointed to Palestine. A chord was touched that thrilled through the whole heart of society. The ardor of the knight was kindled by a holier fire; he assumed "the cross," and went to battle with the Infidel for the holy sepulchre.

You understand that all Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst's zeal for religious toleration has burst forth since his marriage with a Jewish lady, a fortunate influence for all the Christian recusants! Neither the Bishop of London nor his brother of Exeter, any more than Lord Brougham, is spared by the London press for the part they took in the curious debate on the surviving penalties and restrictions "in more than thirty acts of parliament" of which the chancellor and Lord Camoys exposed the enormity and absurdity. British writers have often shuddered and wailed over the code noir of the southern states of our union; it might still be deemed a white or blushing code by the side of the British statute-books in the various legislation with regard to Papists, Dissenters, Jews, and Jacobites. So far as statute-books exemplify the spirit of liberality, Christianity, and humanity, and, of course, real civilization, or the reverse, those of the Union, and even of any of its members, might be proudly compared with any European whatever. The crusades came to an end; and soon, arose, The Times and the Daily News are particularly in distinctive forms, the contest between the church irreverent towards the mitred alarmists: if you and the civil powers; and in the dim uncertainty, wish your readers to be properly acquainted with the true principles and limits of government began Lord Brougham, you will copy the editorial sketch to be studied and shadowed forth. Commerce, of the Times of the 28th ultimo. The protectionist and the spirit of discovery, were, in the meantime, writers have discovered that the noble lord, in the gloriously awakened. Liberalizing ideas were set second volume of his lives, &c., just issued, has loose and began to float through society, and right brought out and applied the doctrines of Adam notions of liberty took root and grew. Smith, whose life is of the number, in such a way as to invalidate, by that great authority, the cause of the repeal of the corn-laws, which the biographer advocates in parliament. It is, in fact, impossible for him to be consistent, sincere, or stead

fast.

From the Truth-Seeker Magazine.
THE AGES.

SOCIETY, from the earliest ages to the present, has ever been in progress. The first dawnings of

It was an event to stir up men's minds, and operate on future generations. The old monotony was broken up by new and marvellous activities. A wider knowledge and more thoughtful habit were diffused among the nations of Europe.

Ere long the art of printing was discovered; and scarcely had that stupendous engine of moral power been planted on the firm earth, than a voice of thunder was heard reverberating through the forests of Germany, and amongst the mountains of Switzerland-reechoed even with a louder note from the hills of Britain and the wildest glens of Scotland. It was the voice of many multitudes aroused from the sleep of centuries.

The foundations of the Vatican trembled, and the papal empire underwent an irreparable disruption. The whole moral aspect of Christendom

LICENSED? TO DO WHAT?-HOW THE IRISH WOMAN REFORMED HER HUSBAND.

was changed. The nations stood forth in the freshness of a new creation.

Philosophy, which had already begun to revive, now fully arose from its torpor; shook off the weight and dust of ages, and expanded in its orb of freedom.

Letters, which had suffered a long eclipse, reäppeared with more than original power and splendor.

Every succeeding age has witnessed nobler triumphs of science, and the genial progress of civil and religious liberty.

Commonwealths are settled, or are being settled, on the basis of utility; communities are become orderly, and kings constitutional. From this freer state of the human mind, and happier condition of society, innumerable institutions have arisen for the intellectual, social, and moral elevation of mankind. "As one star differeth from

another star in glory"-so do these in fitness and effect; while of this bright circle of benevolent influence THE GOSPEL is, and ever must be, the glorious source and centre.

Conspicuous and foremost among the lights of our moral firmament is the Temperance Reforma

tion.

Fitly harmonizing with the beautiful tendencies of modern civilization, it will become a grand

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From the New York Observer. TO DO WHAT?

LICENSED to make the strong man weak;

Licensed to lay the wise man low;
Licensed a wife's fond heart to break,

And make her children's tears to flow.
Licensed to do thy neighbor harm;

Licensed to kindle hate and strife;
Licensed to nerve the robber's arm;

Licensed to whet the murderer's knife.
Licensed thy neighbor's purse to drain ;
And rob him of his very last;
Licensed to heat his feverish brain,
Till madness crown thy work at last.
Licensed, like spider for a fly,

To spread thy nets for man, thy prey;
To mock his struggles-suck him dry-
Then cast the worthless hulk away.
Licensed, where peace and quiet dwell,
To bring disease and want and woe;
Licensed to make this world a hell,
And fit man for a hell below.

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instrument in working out the era of universal THE WAY THE IRISH WOMAN TOOK TO STOP enlightenment and blessedness. Reflect on the opinion it attacks-the fatal spring of a thousand ills and a thousand woes ;-on the habits it proposes to eradicate-incompatible with a high state of intellectual moral attainment :-and its vast and comprehensive bearings immediately rise before the view.

It is no pitiful thing of sentiment-no puny bantling of a spurious philanthropy:-but a child of Truth and Science, and whose lineaments show it to be of giant race.

It is yet in its infancy; but the manhood of the moral Hercules will come. Its present achievements indicate its power, and foreshadow its final triumph.

Would that all who are engaged in its service could rise to a due conception of its importance, and ever steadily regard it from that high vantage ground;-would that the whole field of possible results were distinctly mapped out before the intellectual eye;-then would there be no lack of zeal and no faltering of purpose. The magnitude and sublimity of the end would attract us on

to its consummation.

Rightly is it cast upon the present eventful era -this crisis of the world-this momentous point where the old things of the past are closing, and from whence the new things of the future will issue and expand.

Strong, glorious, and hopeful is the contrast of the life and tendency of the nineteenth century, with the savage selfishness of the early peoples and of every intervening epoch of the world's progress. The past has been accumulating the present; this shall be resolved into wider issues, and these again expand into vaster ends and aims.

History is the unfolding of the high capacities of man, or rather of the benevolent wisdom of God; and less sublime is the glory of the opening day than this outbeaming of Heaven on the destinies of earth. The climax shall be-falsehood and vice put down-truth and virtue triumphant; and but one song shall be heard throughout the realms of intelligent being "The Lord God omnipotent reigneth."

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A ROSY daughter of Erin was busy at her wash tub, when some looker on observed that she wrung out the clothes with her left hand. "What, Judy, are you left-handed?" Niver," she replied; it is not left-handed I am, since there's only two things that I do with my left hand. One is to do what you see me doing now." "And what is the other?" "An' the other is to whip Jemmy." "What, whip your husband! How is that?" "An' I'll tell you how it is, plase ye : Jemmy would get drunk, and so I whipped him." "Well, did that make him leave off?"—" Niver a bit; for sure, the more I whipped him the more he got drunk." "And what did you do then, Judy?" "Oh, an' plase ye, I left off myself. As Jemmy would n't leave off getting drunk for my whipping, why, jist then, like a rasonable woman, I left off whipping him for gettin' drunk. And I took him on another tack. Says I to him, one bright evening, as we two were sitting alone, Jemmy,' says I. What is it, my Judy?' said he. So says I, Jemmy, if ye is not agoing to lave off getting drunk, I'll tell ye what I am going to do next.' What's that?' said Jemmy, looking up to see if I was in earnest.Well, I'll tell ye,' says I; 'I am going to getting drunk myself.' Don't do that, Judy,' says he. An' sure, I will,' said I. not be a spree now and then that I'll have, but I'll spree all the time. It is not the getting drunk every Saturday night that 'll do me, but I'll be drunk every day in the week, and every night to.-An' we'll sell our table and our chairs, and our bed too, Jemmy, to buy rum.-An' we'll put little Jemmy into the work-house, and we'll be turned out of doors because we can't pay our rint. an' then the officer shall come and carry us off to jail!' Stop! stop!' says he, an sure you don't mean so.' 'An' sure I do,' said I.-Jemmy hung down his head and said nothing. Says I,

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DR. SENTER'S JOURNAL.

to me, Come Judy, my dear, put on your things | ilized man. They frequently had snowstorms of and go along with me.' 'An' where is it ye great violence, and disease thinned their ranks. are going?' said I. Never mind that,' said he, November 1st he states:-"Several had been encome along.' So I went with him, and we tirely destitute of meat or bread for many days. both signed the pledge, and niver a drop of the These chiefly consisted of those who devoured critter has he tasted since."-Dew Drop. their provisions immediately, and a number who were in the boats. The voracious disposition many of us had now arrived at, rendered almost anything admissible. Clean and unclean were THE Historical Society of Pennsylvania has forms now little in use. In company was a poor lately done itself credit by the publication of this dog who had hitherto lived through all the tribuwork from the original manuscript. Dr. Senter, lations, who became a prey for the sustenance of a native of New Hampshire, was pursuing the the assassinators. This poor animal was instudy of medicine at Newport, R. I., when the stantly devoured, without leaving any vestige of battle of Lexington opened the revolutionary war. the sacrifice.* Nor did the shaving soap, pomaHe immediately joined a body of Rhode Island tum, and even the lip-salve, leather of their shoes, troops as surgeon, and having reached Cambridge, cartridge-boxes, &c., share, a better fate." On the where the American army was encamped, he was 8th of November they reached Point Levi, opposhortly after appointed to the detachment entrusted site Quebec. "The confusion in Quebec was to General Arnold for the invasion of Canada, by very great. But if we had been in a situation to way of the Kennebec river. This little work is a have crossed the river immediately upon our arriplain but graphic narrative of the difficulties, dan-val, they would have fallen an easy prey." Five gers and sufferings, of that memorable expedition. British vessels sailed down the river, supposed to A large part of the forces abandoned the enter-be laden with valuable effects. On the night of prise in despair; the undaunted remainder pushed the 13th they crossed the river without discovery on and reached Quebec, after the most dreadful from the British fleet, and without the loss of a sufferings from hunger, cold and want of every necessary of life. At Quebec they were joined by General Montgomery, who had previously taken Montreal. It is evident from this journal that, had the American General had double the number of men, Quebec must have fallen into his hands, and the province of Canada might now constitute a portion of our union.

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The bad condition of their arms, and a deficiency of ammunition compelled them on the 18th of November to raise the siege and proceed eight leagues up the St. Lawrence, whence they despatched messengers to Montreal to apprize Gen. Montgomery of their position and condition. On the 1st of December Montgomery joined them with The party left Cambridge in September, 1775, part of his forces, and in a few days Quebec was and passed through Newburyport and Salem to again besieged. The doctor details some of their Newbury, where they embarked in transports for transactions in language altogether medical, thus: the mouth of the Kennebec, up which river they Monday 11th-Agreeable to prescription, fiftysailed to a short distance above Gardiner's town, five more of the fire-pills were given to the Carlenow called Gardiner. Here they took to their bat-tonians last evening. Operated with manifest perteaux, and after sundry accidents by water, and having to carry their boats across a number of portages, around rapids and waterfalls, they reached, on the 24th of October, a part of the river where they found it impossible to proceed any further with the remainder of their boats, except by hauling them from the shore by towing lines. Their provisions had fallen short, and on that day the doctor joined "Colonel Greene's divi-long to transcribe. sion, waiting for the remainder of the army to Arnold was severely wounded in this assault, come up, that they might get some provisions ere and displayed great courage on the occasion. they advanced any further." They were "almost destitute of any eatable whatever, except a few candles, which were used for supper and breakfast the next morning by boiling them in water gruel,"

&c.

"A council being here held whether all or part only should proceed, it was decided by a majority of one vote that all should proceed. Lieut. Col. Enos, however, who had been in the majority, shortly after changed his mind and joined the returners. The party that resolved to proceed were now one hundred and fifty-four miles from the Canadian inhabitants, with a howling wilderness between them. On the 27th of October, the doctor says:-"Our bill of fare for last night and this morning consisted of the jawbone of a swine, destitute of any covering.-This we boiled in a quantity of water, that, with a little thickening, constituted our sumptuous eating." Their way led them over mountains and through swamps and thickets, previously untrodden by the foot of civ

turbation, as they were [as usual] alarmed. Bells beating, dogs barking, &c. Their cannonade still continued on the battery, but to no advantage. Forty-five more pills as cathartic last night." Among other works the Americans built a battery of ice, but were obliged to abandon it. A most interesting account of the attack upon Quebec and the death of Montgomery is next given, but it is too

"We entreated," says Dr. Senter, "Col. Arnold for his own safety, to be carried back into the country where they would not readily find him when out, but to no purpose. He would neither be removed nor suffer a man from the hospital to retreat. He ordered his pistols loaded, with a sword in his bed, &c., adding that he was determined to kill as many as possible if they came into the room. We were now all soldiers, even to the wounded in their beds were ordered a gun by their side." In June, the army evacuated Canada. The doctor describes their "unaccountable misfortunes" either to the neglect in the generals' not apprizing congress of the state of the army from time to time; or to the neglect of congress to provide for their necessities.-Pennsylvanian.

*This dog belonged to Mr. Steele, of Pennsylvania, brother of the late Gen. John Steele, of the Philadelphis custom-house. We shed tears for his loss, whilst his comrades were eating him.

. From the Athenæum.

MR. JAMES, THE NOVELIST.

The Step-Mother. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq. 3 writer,) into a farrago whose flatness has one only

vols. Smith, Elder & Co.

ful constitution-mix up with the vulgarities of a genteel writer, (for Mr. James is a very genteel redeeming circumstance. An air of easy selfesteem presides over the delivery of all these platitudes which, out of the very heart of weariness, will raise an occasional smile; and this is now and then exalted into an absolute enjoyment by the ludicrous effects which the writer's utter carelessness of manner produces, and his perfect uncon

THERE is in rapidity of production a suggestion of power, which leads the mind, ex mero motu, to look for the qualities by which the rapidity and its inference are to be alike justified. It is true that this rapidity is quite as likely to have another source that a consciousness of power and an un-sciousness of any such effect. consciousness of weakness may have a common Mr. James' dedications we have always thought expression, as temerity affects to speak the lan- models in their kind. Much may be learned of a guage of strength-that a great moral authority man by his dedications. Something of the charachas described the fool as being often more for- ter will peep out in these treacherous reporters, ward than the angel on the same ground-and where a writer commits himself to them freely. finally, that it is entirely illogical to accept quan- The preface and the dedication are, of course, tity as in any degree a measure of quality-still carefully written parts of a book. Standing as the prejudice exists-mere accumulation has its each does prominent and detached having no own dynamic value-and extent is assumed, on its support for its weakness from the other portions of first suggestion, to imply depth. When we see the volume-it has to make its impression by its issue after issue from the same intellectual trea- own particular merits, and is usually put into attisury, our first inference is of its wealth; and we tude with sufficient care. Nowhere, then, do recur for illustration rather to the multiplied crea- this author's feebleness of manner and smirking tions of Scott and the sudden marvels of Michael intention show more conspicuously than in his Angelo, than to the garrulity of the gossip or the dedications. His highest key-note is here touched; manufactured ingenuities of the merchant of delf. and it falls after this flat and unvarying fashion on The author before us abounds in this sort of the expectant ear:-" My dear a few words imputed strength. The acreage of his literary will be sufficient for the dedication of this book to estate is now very considerable and fast increas- one for whom I have so great a regard, and who, I ing: but a strong suspicion of its want of value am proud to believe, has so great a regard for is spreading amongst readers. Each new addition me." This is the very style of the "Complete is purchased by him, there is too much reason to Letter-Writer." The comfortable reciprocity, think, at less and less of intellectual cost-and yet too, which it announces, runs through all Mr. was less worth the purchase than the last. In fact, James' compositions in this kind, in forms of it is believed, in many quarters, that Mr. James about equal ingenuity and with a fine monotony of started in life with but a slender literary capital; tone and intention. All his dedicatees are very and early invested it in a particular form of fiction distinguished men, as he assures them-giving which yielded him an excellent return and that them, at the same time, to understand that a this return he has been unwisely expending since leading proof of their title to distinction consists in in barren additions to his literary seigniory-whose the manner in which they have distinguished himplashy waters, flavorless fruits, and colorless flow-self. On his own showing, this writer would ers are, in each new instance, less and less of seem to have the uncommon friendship of a larger temptations to "a generous and discerning public." number of gifted persons than fall as friends to -But leaving the language of metaphor-which most men's share; and his design appears to be has caught our critical garment in walking over to reward (or perhaps secure) each with a separthis last of Mr. James' enclosures-we have, in ate dedication. It is pleasant work enough, this fact, been curious to inquire into the disagreement dedication-writing, as Mr. James manages it; bebetween the promise of this author's abundant pro- cause he never fails to make it render tribute, in duction and the very unsatisfactory result which the shape we have mentioned, or some other, to continually remains as its fulfilment ;-to trace, if himself. In the present instance, we do not think possible, the secret of those devices by which the he has been fortunate in his treatment of this delifacility is made to grow, as the force is declining cate instrument-because while he assures, as -whereby the complement, menaced by the fail- usual, the gentleman who is the object of his deure of means, is kept up by the substitution of dication, that he (the dedicatee) possesses uncomtheir appearances; and we think we have made mon powers, it is incautiously added that he has some discoveries, the communication of which given little proof of it. may be useful to novel writers of Mr. James' class.

The first and most obvious contrivance for the attainment of quantity is, of course, dilution; but this resource has practically its limit, and Mr. James had reached it long ago. Commonplace in its best day, anything more feeble, vapid-sloppy, in fact (for we know not how to characterize this writer's style but by some of its own inelegancies) -than Mr. James' manner has become, it were difficult to imagine. Every literary grace has been swamped in the spreading marasmus of his style. Gossipry of the quality which proverb has assigned to the tea-table-sentimentalities such as are beloved of ladies' maids, &c.-faded moralities, that look wan from their great age and originally doubt

To return, however, to Mr. James' contrivances for getting three volumes out of small materials— and then_three more out of the same by turning them. For this purpose, Mr. James has found great resource in description. Every man, woman, and child, town, village, house, tree, brook, and field that comes in his way is largely describedand most of them re-described. Then, the component parts of such of them as have component parts susceptible of description, are separately described-and this, of course, is ticklish work which leads to mistakes. Next, Mr. James will find out that something is beyond description, and therefore cannot be described; and having taken a somewhat unfair advantage of the reader by winning his ear to the explanation of this impossibility

-he then proceeds to describe it! We will con- the book for the author they shorten it for the fess that this has more than once tried the imper-reader-because he skips them. It is not in hufection of our tempers sorely; because our imme-man strength to read them. We dare not offer diate feeling was that we had been imposed on one of the heavier passages to our own readers; but we have usually restored our good humor to but will give the most cheerful we can find-made the author at the second thought, which brought cheerful by the fact that it is intended as at once the sense of his ingenuity.-All these devices, a specimen of the reflections in question and of the however, Mr. James has found far from sufficient author's liveliness. We do earnestly hope that the to eke out the paucity of narrative material; and reader will not find the very liveliness a heavier before we proceed to relate the author's grand and thing than the heaviness which we have avoided paramount discovery, we must point out a few of for his sake: but if happily he can float upon this the many supplementary means which the neces- example as we just can ourselves, we ask him to sity of the case suggested to his invention as feed- think what effect pages upon pages of moralitiesers. They form curious examples of adaptation. intruding themselves everywhere, incumbering all Our readers are to understand that the gain of a the incidents, keeping up a regular chorus-not single word is of importance in our author's sys- Greek-and beside the most cheerful of which this tem; and like a man who has a sum to make up looks lively-must have upon the spirits :by a given day, with difficulty in doing so, he will "Intense selfishness is a very excellent thingnot reject the smallest coin. Hence iteration, re- in some respects for those who possess it; for dundancy, and tautology, are brought to bear on although they may be very sensitive upon the one the demand; and a page or two perhaps obtained central spot, yet, at every other point, where all by the appearance of such epithets as "exact" and the rest of the world are vulnerable, they are "precise," repeating and confirming each other, guarded with triple steel. I wonder when Lord in the same sentence. To this class of helps, too, Bacon wrote his essay upon the wisdom of the belong expletives-which are very abundant; and ancients, he did not show that the character of interjections-a favorite example of which insinu- Achilles was a mere allegory of the blind Greek to ates itself under the guise of a fond and confiden- represent a perfectly selfish man; for there cannot tial intercourse with the public; and, in the affec-be the slightest doubt that such was the case. tionate form of " dear reader," makes altogether a Take his whole history, and it is evident; first, he not inconsiderable amount of contribution to these was dipped in Styx, that hellish stream which volumes. It is, also, one of the writer's most suc-rendered him invulnerable to all the slings and cessful pleasantries. Paraphrase and circumlo-arrows of the general enemy. There was but one cution next do something for him. For example, point in which he could be wounded, and that was if he wishes to inform the reader that it is halfpast one o'clock, he gives it in the form of a problem. The former is told that it was that time of the day which is represented by the hour finger on the dial pointing between the figures 1 and 2, while the minute finger was passing, or would shortly pass, over the figure 6. And the purpose for which this paraphrase is adopted is skilfully concealed under the pretence that it is offered as a grace of language.-An affectation of minuteness in matters indifferent is less successful in hiding its purpose-though the gain for which this exposure Let us, while we are on the article of liveliness, is incurred is, after all, but trifling. It is a very illustrate the author's manner of being lively in his frequent device, however. "It was about four general style, by a simple and accidental example o'clock in the afternoon," Mr. James will say, but one of an endless family :-"Oh, promises, speaking simply this time, but recovering his loss promises! pie-crust is adamant to you, and pufffrom doing so as follows-" or it might even be a paste is not more fragile."-With reference to the few minutes earlier." Of course, the reader will philosophical portions of Mr. James' volumes to suppose, as we did till we became accustomed which we have alluded, we may observe, too, that to the sort of thing, that the words have some sig- there are many parts of them, as well as the opennificance-do service of some kind-that a carefulings of his descriptions and some other parts of his marking of the time is important to the incidents works, which are probably kept stereotyped. -that the addition, in fact, is not a mere redun-"There are moments in the life of every man" dancy. Absolutely and positively, as Mr. James alone yields no inconsiderable supply of text to would say, nothing else! The words are utterly these volumes; most of the chapters begin with without purpose, mere loungers-filling conspicu- some little ornamental bit-and frequently the same ous situations, but enjoying them as sinecures;-like an initial letter; and we scarcely remember though the writer would perhaps again offer them any novel of Mr. James' before this, in which as style-conveying the impression of reality. If "two horsemen might not be seen riding up (or Mr. James can give no reality to his incidents down) a hill"-the one being always young and from within, he will scarcely animate them by cheerful, and the other older, stouter, and more such tricks as this. In the present volume Mr. thoughtful-but the two obviously contrived by the Timothy Quatterly had passed his meridian-author to fit into any landscape. "being fifty-eight, if not fifty-nine :”—and so on, But we are not yet at the end of Mr. James' to an amount that makes an appreciable figure in devices for filling up the prescribed amount of the account. From moral reflections the author paper; and the next is a clumsy one indeedgains important assistance; and this resource is clumsy in itself, and looking clumsier beside the accordingly worked, we are bound to say, alto-neatness of some of the others. It affects the congether beyond the limits of conscientiousness. duct of his incidents, and may be called RepeCuriously enough, however, while these lengthen tition. The course of those, as in most other

the lowest point of his whole frame, his right heel. What could this mean but that he could not be reached through the head or the heart? This gave him very great advantages over all his companions, and he was able to overcome, and even kill, a great many much better men than himself; but still it did not secure him happiness, nor obtain for him ultimate success. What a fine moral to the allegory-and at length a Phrygian boy, in a night-cap, found out the weak point, and despatched him with a missile !”

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